Journeying through different worlds.

 Before I get into this post, i'll have to admit that this game won't be 8-bit or retro, so sorry about that. There hasn't really been much to go off of in English class so far because we've just finished watching a movie called Jane Eyre and have started reading Wuthering Heights.

 None of these subjects are really relateable to video games, so I'll try my best. Jane Eyre closer to my topic than Wuthering Heights so I'll just roll with that. The main character in Jane Eyre was sort of "abandoned" at the beginning. Her parents had recently died so she moved in with her aunt and they basically treated her like trash. She later runs away to find her own freedom and it;s basically just this long journey. She was sort of relateable to the main character of Bastion who is nameless throughout the story.

 Bastion was a video game created by Supergiant Games for the Xbox, iOS, and computer. The story takes place after a giant calamity and player wakes up in a totally vacant place where just about everyone is reduced to ash. These people would be comparable to the love Jane Eyre received and the Calamity in the game represented the death of Jane Eyre's parents.After the Calamity, the people around the player died and when Jane's parents died, all the love she was suppose to be receiving disappeared. Jane's run-away journey is basically the same as the player's journey in Bastion: they were both looking for someone or something to complete them. The different levels in Bastion represented the journeys that Jane had to go through throughout her life such as the experience with her Aunt, Edward, and St. John. Jane Eyre's experience with the Edward Rochester is also like the Player's adventure in getting crystals to save restore the world. Although it didn't happen at first, Jane later became fixated on Edward, but had to go through rough experiences such as a deceived marriage as well as jealousy with the other marriage candidates. The player had to fight monsters that guarded certain crystals which were essential to restoring the world and that became fixated on that goal. I feel as though both Bastion and Jane Eyre contain a character that is relateable to the average person in that even when times are tough, we should stay headstrong and focus on what's important to us.